News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
I tell people I don’t listen to the radio much anymore, but that’s not quite true. Every single morning I wake up to the sound of CBC Radio One on my clock radio. And on Saturday and Sunday mornings this… Read moreCBC NXNW: Studio One Book Club interview with Guy Gavriel Kay
Executive Producer David Farquhar of the audio drama troupe called Voices In The Wind Audio Theatre, writes in to tell me about audio drama production group. From the website: Voices In The Wind– Audio Theatre, formally Design Sound Productions. Our… Read moreVoices In The Wind Audio Theatre
The latest Spark podcast has a fascinating segment called “The future of public library design” in which host Nora Young talks to a Dutch librarian, and a designer, about their bold experiment in library design. The new Almere public library… Read moreCBC Spark: The future of public library design
Canada’s Conservative government has tabled a new copyright bill (a proposed law). Bill C-32 contains a provision to prevent the legalization of most of the rights it purports to be enshrining. The DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection provisions in Bill… Read moreCBC Spark: Bill C-32, Canada’s awful new copyright legistlation
So I turned on CBC Radio late one evening last Thursday and discovered a new radio drama! Backbencher airs twice on Thursdays, once at 11:30 am and once at 11:05 pm. Oh well. I figured it was just another radio… Read moreCBC begins podcasting RADIO DRAMA: Backbencher
The 1990s was full of mystery in Canada. Weekday broadcasts on CBC Radio featured more than a dozen detectives in fully dramatized mysteries. This was a result of The Mystery Project. Perhaps the most listened to series under this banner… Read moreCBC Radio’s The Mystery Project: Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol